Quotes About Challenges

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

We have 100,000 people in the U.S. affected by sickle cell," one senator pointed out. "How are we going to afford that if it's $1 million per patient? That just breaks the bank.

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair

FEW LEADERS ARE MEN FOR ALL SEASONS. THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINE an effective leader in one circumstance may be useless or even mischievous in another.

I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the police and the government, public opinion, and even the history taught in schools. It was odd that such negative thoughts would invigorate me. But knowing the truth, no matter how bad it was, gave you some chance, a little bit of an edge.

The fact of the matter is that the most profound reasons for the economic backwardness of a given African nation are not to be found inside that nation.

As every reader has experienced who may have chanced to be in such a situation, it is extremely difficult to maintain the full dignity of an offended person, in the presence of a beautiful girl, whatever reason we may have for being angry with her.

sufficient for the day was the evil thereof.

Ye never saw dull weather clear without a shower; and if the world is turned upside down, why, honest men have the better chance to cut bread out of it.

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.

There is no tougher job in corporate America than running an airline: Despite the huge amounts of equity capital that have been injected into it, the industry, in aggregate, has posted a net loss since its birth after Kitty Hawk. Airline managers need brains, guts, and experience—and

with others, are likely to experience such a year.

For these investors, it would have been far better if Orville had failed to get off the ground at Kitty Hawk: The more the industry has grown, the worse the disaster for owners.

History teaches us that a crisis often causes problems to correlate in a manner undreamed of in more tranquil times.

In the world of business, bad news often surfaces serially: You see a cockroach in your kitchen; as the days go by, you meet his relatives.

One of the lessons your management has learned—and, unfortunately, sometimes re-learned—is the importance of being in businesses where tailwinds prevail rather than headwinds.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.

If you agree too easily, you will be little trusted; because the sage always confronts difficulties, he never experiences them.

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.